Character Entity References

Many of the Latin alphabet No. 1 set of printing characters may be
represented within the text of an HTML document by a character entity.
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Two possible reasons for using a character entity:

the keyboard does not provide a key for the character, such
as on U.S. keyboards which do not provide European characters.
the character may be interpreted as SGML coding, such as the ampersand (&),
double quotes ("), the lesser than (<) and greater than(>) characters.

A character entity is represented in an HTML document as an SGML entity whose name is defined in the HTML DTD.
The HTML DTD includes a character entity for each of the SGML markup characters and for each of the printing
characters in the upper half of Latin-1, so that one may reference them by name if it is inconvenient to enter them directly:

the ampersand (&), double quotes ("), lesser than(<) and greater than(>) characters

e.g.: Kurt Gödel was a famous logician and mathematician.

NOTES:

To ensure that a string of characters is not interpreted as markup,
represent all occurrences of <, >, and & by character or entity references.
There are SGML features, CDATA and RCDATA, to allow most <, >, and & characters
to be entered without the use of entity or character references.
  Because these features tend to be used and implemented inconsistently,
  and because they require 8-bit characters to represent non-ASCII characters,
  they are not used in this version of the HTML DTD.
  An earlier HTML specification included an example element whose syntax is not expressible in SGML.
  No markup was recognised inside of the Example element.
  While HTML user agents are encouraged to support this idiom, its use is deprecated.

IMPORTANT!!! - The following entity names are used in HTML, always prefixed by ampersand (&) and followed by a semicolon(;)

The following table lists each of the characters specified in the Added Latin 1
entity set, along with its name, syntax for use, and description.
This list is derived from ISO Standard 8879:1986//ENTITIES Added Latin 1//EN.

HTML supports the entire entity set.

Syntax	Char	Description

Aacute	Á	Capital A, acute accent
Agrave	À	Capital A, grave accent
Acirc	Â	Capital A, circumflex accent
Atilde	Ã	Capital A, tilde
Aring	Å	Capital A, ring
Auml	Ä	Capital A, dieresis or umlaut mark
AElig	Æ	Capital AE dipthong (ligature)
Ccedil	Ç	Capital C, cedilla
Eacute	É	Capital E, acute accent
Egrave	È	Capital E, grave accent
Ecirc	Ê	Capital E, circumflex accent
Euml	Ë	Capital E, dieresis or umlaut mark
Iacute	Í	Capital I, acute accent
Igrave	Ì	Capital I, grave accent
Icirc	Î	Capital I, circumflex accent
Iuml	Ï	Capital I, dieresis or umlaut mark
Eth	Ð	Capital Eth, Icelandic
Ntilde	Ñ	Capital N, tilde
Oacute	Ó	Capital O, acute accent
Ograve	Ò	Capital O, grave accent
Ocirc	Ô	Capital O, circumflex accent
Otilde	Õ	Capital O, tilde
Ouml	Ö	Capital O, dieresis or umlaut mark
Oslash	Ø	Capital O, slash
Uacute	Ú	Capital U, acute accent
Ugrave	Ù	Capital U, grave accent
Ucirc	Û	Capital U, circumflex accent
Uuml	Ü	Capital U, dieresis or umlaut mark
Yacute	Ý	Capital Y, acute accent

Thorn	Þ	Capital THORN, Icelandic
Szlig	ß	Small sharp s, German (sz ligature)

aacute	á	Small a, acute accent
agrave	à	Small a, grave accent
acirc	â	Small a, circumflex accent
atilde	ã	Small a, tilde
aring	å	Small a, ring
auml	ä	Small a, dieresis or umlaut mark
aelig	æ	Small ae dipthong (ligature)
ccedil	ç	Small c, cedilla
eacute	é	Small e, acute accent
egrave	è	Small e, grave accent
ecirc	ê	Small e, circumflex accent
euml	ë	Small e, dieresis or umlaut mark
iacute	í	Small i, acute accent
igrave	ì	Small i, grave accent
icirc	î	Small i, circumflex accent
iuml	ï	Small i, dieresis or umlaut mark
eth	ð	Small eth, Icelandic
ntilde	ñ	Small n, tilde
oacute	ó	Small o, acute accent
ograve	ò	Small o, grave accent
ocirc	ô	Small o, circumflex accent
otilde	õ	Small o, tilde
ouml	ö	Small o, dieresis or umlaut mark
oslash	ø	Small o, slash
uacute	ú	Small u, acute accent
ugrave	ù	Small u, grave accent
ucirc	û	Small u, circumflex accent
uuml	ü	Small u, dieresis or umlaut mark
yacute	ý	Small y, acute accent
thorn	þ	Small thorn, Icelandic
yuml	ÿ	Small y, dieresis or umlaut mark

reg	®	Registered TradeMark
copy	©	Copyright
nbsp		Non-breaking space

NOTE:
The last three character entities are only supported in recent versions of MS-IE and Netscape.
They may not appear as planned in early versions of these, or different browsers.

reg - ® - Registered TradeMark
nbsp - - Non-breaking space